TRANSCRIBING AND VISUALIZING LANGUAGE, TIME, ACTION, AND THE BODY: AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT

From Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 April

Transcribing is a key practice in several scientific domains in which the methodology crucially relies on the gathering of data through recordings – such as video materials – and on their representation, in a textual and visual form. For example, the tradition of conversation analysis bases its studies on audio and video recordings of social interactions, which are then transcribed according to various conventions. Whereas talk is often transcribed in a rather standardized way (e.g., Jefferson 2004), for embodied conduct – including gesture, gaze, head movements, facial expressions, body postures, movements of the entire body – there is still a lack of standardized conventions. Multimodal transcription constitutes an attempt to offer a representation of the temporal details of action and interaction, through the hybridization of textualizations and visualizations of video recorded images. This workshop aims at exploring analytical and technical aspects of textual and visual practices in the fabrication of transcripts. For so doing, researchers practicing multimodal transcription and artists interested in the representation of movement, body, and action in time will collaborate together. The aim is to produce new forms of visualizations and experiment their advantages and limitations for the analysis and the representation of social interaction.